egypt is set for more protests from the opposition who threatened to storm the presidential palace in a fresh show of anger against the country's leader mohamed morsi. earlier in the week similar scenes of chaos and violence on the streets of tunisia where the assassination of a prominent opposition figure ignited outbursts of on a rest with people blaming the islamist government for betraying the arab spring uprising. protests and catcalls confronted cia hopeful john

brennan at a confirmation hearing and made fears of where the architect of the targeted assassination program could take america's spy bureau. and russia countdown to the twenty fourteen winter olympics the games promised to be unique as well as the most expensive in history with a huge overspend already costing a key organizer his job. good evening i'm lucy catherine of thanks for tuning in to our team for our weekly show . egypt's opposition groups are gearing up for more mass rallies against president morsy and with some threatening to storm the presidential palace the protesters are demanding that morsi uphold the goals of the revolution that ousted hosni mubarak two years ago meanwhile an egyptian court has ordered the government to block

access to the video sharing web site you tube citing and content because r.t.s. build true reports the decision is only likely to inflame tensions as the unaddressed continues. there's been enough to calm the nation of the by protest movements who see you cheap as a vital resource for disseminating information about human rights abuses by the security forces it's also an indication of an islam mind zation all egypt has been a number of quite controversial statements made by these hardline muslim clerics in the last few weeks including a religious edict calling opposition forces to be killed and a muslim cleric speaking to gyptian. justifying insects mob attacks on egyptian protesters in tahrir square you have a very restive country here in egypt in the last few weeks especially since the second anniversary of the january twenty five revolution when thousands gathered in the streets of egypt set complaining that their president had mostly had not made

key changes in demands of the revolution friday we saw more protests as part of friday's day and security thousands of protesters gathered across the main rallying points in this in the country which devolved into clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces in the capital here by the presidential palace when groups talk to the building with molotov they're pushed back by take us and water cannons and so bloody of violence in the in the governor with unconfirmed that's in couple shake as well as violent clashes and. we have more protests on the horizon with further expected violence we don't see this finishing anytime soon. egyptian journalist and blogger. says that many people in the country feel their freedoms are being cut back by president morsi and his allies but the muslim brotherhood right now is trying to do is restore autocratic rule and much like or not. governing and i think the way the political actors see it is that it was not

ruthless enough and did not sign down on freedom is enough to sustain israel and this is what they're trying to remedy the you tube verdict comes in light of. you know many other decisions that clamp down on freedoms. and it's no surprise that they will try to install the infrastructure necessary to clamp down on. various websites that they see as a threat to their rule we're going to see more waves of protests and we're going to see more violence because if you look at the situation in egypt the regime did not die the symbols just changed we just have new people following the same rules. egypt wasn't the only arab spring country plunged into turmoil this week a wave of violent protests have swept through tunisia following the assassination of a secular opposition leader dozens were injured more than three hundred people detained during the rally which ended with anti-government demonstrators clashing with the police that is more of an ocean that has been following the dramatic developments

in the tunisian capital forty eight year old lawyer shockley ability to criticize the islam is to government for creating and really just state in tunisia and burying democracy now belied is dead but his ideas are not. the country's beating crisis economic political and social the ruling troika how to chauncey it's been a year and a half but we didn't see any progress the death of all come right becomes the last june. anger moved to the streets with protesters demanding the authorities and mabel to protect its citizens to leave the city with. some crime because believe it was a symbol of dignity and a symbol of the defense of the country this is a political assassination and that means the violence is not over. the interior ministry said that one million and they have joined the ceremony that turned into

a political manifestation people said that if the crowd reached the city center it would have been the last day of the government. is here attended the funeral of shockey belayed on friday after the seventy try to make their way to the city's main haven't yet to continue and see government protests but they were not allowed to do that at least used tear gas immediately such a day such a street is packed with people the slogans we're hearing are completely different. carrion islamist flags people masterly in support of the ruling and not a party the local branch of the muslim brotherhood police were at the scene to protest and demonstrators this time this reverse gathering didn't pull more than five thousand participants but the government used this to illustrate that their position was still strong. men did improve the people support and believe our party

it's all over but. they try to say face but don't have the choice they lost credibility and have no choice but to dissolve the government which is by de facto dissolved already. standing on the brink of a political crisis prime minister protests to form a new cabinet on the insistence of neutral politicians his own party rejected the plan imprisoning psyche of a possible for the split and here's a growing the political divisions may lead to even more victims always threaten to another guy from the opposition was attacked at the funerals i don't want to panic and ex-wives that person but there is a list of people those who fight for the revolutions principles liberty democracy dignity we're all in danger to use a go to nea's here became the first nation to have an arab spring revolution has been hailed as a success story praised for the minimal violence and turmoil but as we watch the country face

a political implosion it may be only now that this plane that has been moved up tightly it's been sprung for three days clashes between police and protesters shook the country leaving many injured and cars burnt out across the city but it all finished as quickly as it started just hours later the capital looks empty and come and the loudest noise here at the moment is sound of birds twittering. g.'s. one way of fresh air so internees here she's keeping us up to date with the latest from there appear her twitter feed and one of her most recent posts here imports on the political crisis in the country saying the prime minister is still aiming to reshuffle the government just by defiance from his own party that's promising to resign if the new cabinet isn't approved. president obama's nominee to head the cia the architect of the controversial drone assassination program faced his senate confirmation hearing earlier this week well

critics accuse lawmakers of giving john brennan an easy ride some members of the public did not the session was interrupted several times by protesters against brennan as the driving force behind a so-called targeted killings operations human rights activists claim the use of drones against suspected terrorists is unlawful and leads to a high number of civilian casualties after the chairman ordered the demonstrators to be removed lawmakers questioned brennan on the torture and cia shortcomings but they seem to be reluctant to challenge him on his answers to scholar and author a call in cavil says that given biden's views his confirmation could set a troubling precedent. this is the believe that our constitutional rights. do grant so those more an equal rejection of the law and yet within minutes really is doing here is they're usurping the. united to the american citizens and so

we can be judge jury and executioner. you know byrd. was a. court we can say they are jurors and we can go in this dangerous this is one who looks like ministrations this is the german who was your. you'll remember. was only without any problems and that is a very dangerous precedent. john brennan is now up for a closed door hearing to iron out sensitive technicalities the debate of course is already brewing about what direction he could take the cia and his art he's going to explain. in the shadow. no more drones are moving into the mainstream was drone makers and the u.s. military pushing to defend the killing machine drones are more properly titled

remotely piloted vehicles allow us to do is to project capability without projecting vulnerability and their revolutionizing warfare by allowing us to see and kill from half a world away a major drone manufacturer lockheed martin has financed an hour long documentary on drones aired recently on u.s. public television counting the technological capabilities of the killing machine from trailers like this pilots of the predator and its larger cousin the reaper have killed thousands of individual since two thousand and one using remotely piloted aircraft contrary to popular belief actually provides the greatest degree of ethical oversight for their use and this young man in pakistan would probably disagree several of his family members died at the remote hands of a grown up more than a thousand other civilians were reportedly killed by u.s. drone strikes in pakistan and yemen we find ourselves murdering people in many

cases children with no evidence whatsoever that they're involved in any criminal or terrorist activity the numbers should not come as a surprise considering the broad definition the obama administration gives as to who should be on their kill list the leaked memo uncredited assassinations on the us justice department suggest the us government can kill people even without evidence that they are actively plotting against america somebody a us citizen or otherwise is believed to be thinking something that could lead to actions against the united states then this illogical logic would present the idea that it would be ok for the president to order that that person be killed despite the un raising concerns about the legality of the use of drones the u.s. has said to expand its remote control warfare setting. new drone bases across the world has redefined war there an intervention in libya he made the case that the war powers act didn't apply because there was no risk to american soldiers and so

under that rationale he can expand the global war while in his state of the union address claiming that we don't need perpetual war for peace but it is perpetual war when you can drop bombs on any country and then claim that it's not working john brennan often referred to as the architect of the administration's drone war how it's the new opportunities for the us to wage wars without risking american lives there's another reason a targeted strikes can be a wise choice to strategic consequences that inevitably come with the use of force . as we have seen deploying large armies abroad won't always be our best offense all in all the u.s. now has around ten thousand drones in its fleet not all of them carry weapons of course a lot of them are for surveillance both domestic and international there's a great push both from the administration and the drone makers to present them as america's next best thing john brennan if confirmed will soon be at the helm of the

cia and no one doubts that under him the program will expand even further in washington i'm going to shut down. more news after the break stay with us in our team. is to get rid of. the treasure. it's worth fighting. and the trap was no way out.

three. three. three. three. three. three. videos for your media project c.e.o. dan dart t.v. dot com. welcome back to this week's odd days of strikes in spain as tens of thousands of teachers and students voice their anger over education cuts but the government seems unmoved by the crowds and says it is committed to belt tightening measures as it struggles to take the country out of its debt hole that the message from the people of spain was echoed on the streets of ireland where thousands united in

a massive show of anger against severe austerity measures tough cuts were implemented to please our limbs creditors the country has been lying in a joint you i.m.f. fund alone since twenty eight ten. meanwhile angry crowds have been spoiling the mood of e.q. meters as they celebrate a historic budget deal cutting the block spending for the first time ever it was sealed after hours of debates and big hearing over the deal left the european parliament unimpressed some of its m.p.'s are now even planning to block it in a private vote well earlier we spoke to economist james medway hears him away again . constitutionally the well within their rights to reject the thing and send it back and have another go at writing this no whether they actually do that will probably depend on the fine print of the budget already reserved to the quality of the said he would be able to support the steel and the heads of one of the major groups in the parliament the socialist group said that they were likely to support

it so it could be a rocky ride or think this budget over the next few months cameron's right to talk about this being like a reduction in a credit card limits and of course you can have your credit card limit reduced and still spend spending more money no that's almost certainly what's going to happen to britain over the next few years the amounts that britain is expected to pay into the may need for and will increase as a result of increased payments to a new member countries so he's going to pretend that this will show how britain can still be a force in europe how we can push the rest of europe around discourses over the fact of course that he would have got anywhere in this without the support of the angle of merkel in particular so we can we can try to push that line the you know he knows what he's doing to europe and that we don't need to go so far as to step out of the european union but i wouldn't see the more euro skeptic members of his own party being particularly impressed by any of this to some other world headlines in brief right now. the multibillion dollar u.s.

missile defense shield in eastern europe may not be able to protect america from possible strikes from iran serious flaws in the system were revealed in the study is the defense department prepared for a congressional briefing now russia has long been critical of the missile shield close to its borders which the u.s. insists is aimed strictly at preventing attacks from iran and north korea. at least twenty people have reportedly been killed in a stampede at a railroad station in northern india after a crowded overpass collapsed local media say the death toll could rise now the accident occurred as tens of millions had gathered on the banks of the ganges river for the. religious festival. in the u.s. the los angeles police department says it will open an investigation into the dismissal of a police officer who is now on the run is suspected of murder officials will look into the fugitives allegations of racism and corruption among his ex colleagues

christopher dorner was fired back in two thousand and nine he is now wanted for allegedly killing three people after posting a manifesto online. the u.s. defense secretary leon panetta acknowledged this week for the first time that he backs arming syrian rebels the plan was put forward last summer by senior u.s. politicians but was reportedly were buffered by president obama well russia's envoy told the you to the u.n. pardon me told r.t. that despite this washington still could bear some responsibility for what's going on in syria but exclusive interview is coming up later this hour but here is a quick taste of the preview lou not as these chose to stay clean of the bad guys at some point of the grocers' the did realize it seems that things going very wrong you know about various terrorist groups were coming in the radical islamists so we're we're we're active and the original scenario they had in mind that it would

take just a couple of months to topple the assad regime and then sort of democracy will draw your own force completely unrealistic but i mean do notice this is an extremely powerful country but definitely with a lot of an influence on for example such a country as qatar which is reportedly of the main source of weapons support for four armed opposition so the first they simply see themselves are not doing that does not does not really absolve them completely from responsibility of what is happening in the. web privacy in the u.k. could be compromised if the government pressures on with its plans to spy on citizens online in a document described as a snoopers charter would allow authorities to track people's internet activity and mobile phone use now the government explained that the bill was crucial for

national security but the draft proposal has sparked fears among the britons a some believe the monitoring of personal data is a step too far jim kelly arc of the open rights group thinks there'll be no place beyond this in the reach of the state. chances a bill that would allow the government to collect data about everybody online and data mining that data so it's not just about the guilty it is not just about records being kept it's not just about serious people serious criminals who need to be tracked is about the potential of illegal to use more important to get hold of any information about anybody just about anything that you do would be detectable through the information trails you believe we need the home office of publish detailed proposals so that we could see whether there were a workable what the damage would be and have a proper serious debate about those proposals right folks so our people actually

right to think of these proposed laws are serious invasion of privacy well you can head over to our website and get your say on what you think would happen if the government manages to push the snoopers charter through. what looks like a distant olympic dream for russians has now become a very close reality and i count down has kicked off across the country marking one year before russia hosts its first ever winter olympic games but celebrations and praise for the unique facilities built from scratch went hand in hand with harsh criticism for overspending not to mention missed deadlines or he is andrew former reports from sochi. fireworks lit up the sochi sky this week marking exactly a year to go before the winter games begin since two thousand and seven piece by piece the city has been putting its a limpid dream together in the company in charge of construction says russia will

be ready and. we plan to introduce all the facilities before the games start training facilities are ready practically all of them of hosted test competitions all hotels and limpid villages are in the final phase of construction being referred and furnished the shuttle's to open in the autumn we plan to complete construction long before the end of the year so personal can train and managers can gain experience in providing a good service however such a vast undertaking has not been without its problems presentation was in the region this week to check on progress and was taking no prisoners the ski jumping center the only venue not yet up and running and it sparked this exchange with russian olympic officials are the costs of this whole facility costing what's the overall. mission we've been assessing the amount of. the story what's a rough estimate. this initial price of one point two billion. in one point two

billion has turned into a billion us well done good work let's move on. it resulted in the sacking of a key member of russia's olympic committee at fifty billion dollars the sochi games will be the most expensive in nearly history they have cost ten times more than the last winter games in vancouver and ten billion dollars more than the ferry she knew some against however the results can already be seen and they are impressive if you do take a quick look around you can see what money can buy at the center of the limping which is six pennies all within a stone's throw of each other to host the curling the skating and the ice hockey. the june in the crime the bolshoi i stuck. the bass to reno was she strikes spectacular skating show i was part of the countdown celebrations and in a year's time it will how you speak and the ice hockey final in the she so tropical

like the slogan for thought she twenty fourteen is hot cool your top because he didn't pick pockets than by the blacks. i'm cold because all the alpine events were tight places just forty kilometers away. progress is rapid that there was a poor resort has sprung up from nowhere to become the home of alpine skiing biathlon and cross-country courses have also been created along with the bob sleigh track and a road a really well and i spectators to get from the mountains to the coast in just a few minutes so she itself has undergone massive upheaval as kilometers of road am rail lines are put in place a new hotel it's all they want but the mayor believes the region will reap the benefits for years to come. our residents are aware of the conditions they have to face during changes especially. we certainly have many inconveniences because there's not a single street in sochi without renovation going on the roads are regularly dug up

which causes traffic jams all the time however the residents are aware that it's necessary for their future brilliant future. then has been overhauled in just six years but the transformation complete and the black sea resort believes it can and will deliver the games to remember this time next year andrew farmer. soft cheese. well a big spirit also reach new york this week where un cheese bar team are enjoying the celebrations at the organization's headquarters for those of you who want to see the sochi games in person and have a lot of cash to spare tickets are already on sale and unavailable on line.

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. welcome back i'm lucy catherine of now in mali french and government troops are battling the islamist militants in the northern city of gal the area was retaken from the rebels by the french backed government forces a fortnight ago earlier the city was rocked by two suicide bombings although only the bombers themselves were killed in the attacks the latest violence is feeding fears of ajo hottest insurgency france says its campaign in mali is almost complete

after the rebels were pushed from their positions into the desert two weeks ago but john loglan from the paris institute of democracy and cooperation believes the mali intervention could be part of a wider campaign for western domination of africa and the two main characters in this of france's own desire to strengthen the whole role of the international stage in particular piece of you know european audience and also the american strict future plans for africa it's important to know that america which strongly supports fronts in this mali and intervention has plans for establishing a military presence in the military control over the whole of the african culture that some people speculated that used the phrase that this was america leading from behind that america decided to put forward its european allies to do as it were it's just like the securing of energy resources is one of the key factors behind many if not most political benefits.